-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 02/21/08 21:54, Chuck Rhode wrote: > Douglas A. Tutty wrote this on Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 07:39:30PM -0500. > My reply is below. > >> It would appear that there isn't. > > Employment applications piss me off. Every employer's is unique. > Every employer's was designed on a Mac and saved as a *.pdf. > Employers care nothing for attaching a blank application to an eMail > without a thought as to how you're supposed to get it back to them. > There ought'a be an ANSI Standard! > > I am so pissed I've taken a passive/aggressive approach. Slavishly I > convert the *.pdf to a series of *.jpg files with the *pdfimages* > utility from the *poppler-utils* package. Even more slavishly I open > an Oo.org document, insert a bunch of page breaks, and stuff each > separate *.jpg in the background of its own separate page. Then I > painstakingly type over the top of each image being sure to use a > 10-point bold Courier font, which is way too big for the miniscule > blanks the Mac people think are appropriate. I have to buck and weave > with paragraph spacing and tab stops. Each application can take > upwards of two hours to complete, but my time is worth less than > nothing apparently, and I should appreciate the privilege I'm given to > make such applications.
How do you sign your name to the employment application? > Finally, I export the whole Oo.org document back to *.pdf and attach > it to a return eMail. This saves me postage and sticks the employer > with the expense of printing the application out. Turkeys! > > So far I've done this dozens of times without receiving the favor of a > reply. Why am I not surprised? - -- Ron Johnson, Jr. Jefferson LA USA "(Women are) like compilers. They take simple statements and make them into big productions." Pitr Dubovitch -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFHvlI5S9HxQb37XmcRAgweAKDcUWy2V6iyLsOBxNyRiksNqQuo4gCghkUC 09Ajvy+VFSqG+Sp4tfi9+80= =p8XD -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
